Borderlands

Borderlands
Borderlands	2009
Borderlands 2	2012
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	2014
Tales from the Borderlands (series)
Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced	2019
Borderlands 3	2019
Borderlands 2 VR	2019
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure	2021
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands	2022

Key points

There are several potential issues a user can run into when playing Borderlands, ranging from performance issues to annoyances such as unskippable intros and low field of view.

General information

Gearbox Forums - BL PC and Mac Technical Support

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Game of the Year Edition

The most complete version is Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition which contains the base game and all of the expansions. In order of release, the expansions are:

• The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
• Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
• The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
• Claptrap's New Robot Revolution

Downloadable content (DLC)

DLC cannot be mixed and matched between Steam and non-Steam versions.

Improvements

Borderlands Config Tool

Borderlands Config Tool unlocks a number of settings not available in the in-game menu.

This tool allows you to do the following and more:

• Disable Startup Movies
• Disable story introduction movies
• Disable mouse smoothing
• Disable in-game voice chat
• Windowed mode
• V-sync
• Change FOV
• Increase Difficulty (LAN only)

NOTE: Make sure to run the game and change a keybind in the options at least once before running the tool. This will create the necessary .ini files and should fix options being disabled in the tool.

Source Config tool

Disabling Intro Movies

Instructions

Split Screen

There is a helpful guide to getting split screen working here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2455302

Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Instructions

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Instructions

Input settings

Mouse acceleration

Instructions

Turning on 360/PlayStation 3 controller UI

• Edit

  %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\WillowGame.ini

• Find the line FakePlatform=-1 with CTRL+F
• Change the -1 to 1 for Xbox 360 UI

Value	Effect
-1	disabled/auto
0	PC
1	Xbox 360
2	PlayStation 3

You'll also notice in the main menu "Online Game" and "LAN Game" will change to "Xbox LIVE" and "System Link"

The loading tips and training tooltips will still show keyboard bindings

Issues fixed

Quest Bugs

Instructions

Activating DLC

Instructions

General Protection Fault / R6025 runtime error

Instructions

Fixing Performance Issues

Instructions

Progress Not Being Saved

Instructions

Can't Log Into GameSpy

Instructions

Issuess Unresolved

Crashes on Startup (Windows XP)

Some users, after having installed and successfully played the game on Windows XP, experience a standard "Borderlands has encountered an error and needs to close"-message after some time. No known solutions for this problem are known, but the matter is currently being investigated.